Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] new-testing-release_crashed

[Dietmar R. <die...@gm...>]

2007/9/10, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>:
>
> On Mon, September 10, 2007 12:04, Dietmar Rieder wrote:
> > 2007/8/31, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>:
> >
> >>
> >> On Fri, August 31, 2007 06:23, Dietmar Rieder wrote:
> >>
> >>> 2007/8/23, Oliver Niesner <dig...@gm...>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi, Heiko!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> No good news from the new testing release - it crashed after the
> >>>> bootmenu on my PIII 500 intel 440BX board with an "unable to handle
> >>>> kernel paging request at virtual address d0000000" error and hangs.
> >>>> My
> >>>> own iso crashed with the same error - it seems that the new kernel
> >>>> doesn't like older hardware. On an slightly more modern PC (P4) it
> >>>> starts like normal.
> >>>
> >>> The same happens here. After loading the initrd it crashes on my PIII
> >>>  1000 (were it should finally run on).
> >>> On a P4 or on my vmware it works. I build an iso for 486 and one for
> >>> 686 but it doesn't make a difference...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Can you swap out the memory on your PIII for a test?
> >>
> >
> > Ok, I was able to get some spare memory modules. I tested it with two
> > different ones, but DL doesn't boot up. DL 1.2.13 works fine on this
> > machine.
> >
> > But I found out that on another P III (866) the new release works.
> > Unfortunately I can't use the second machine because it is in use for
> > another VPN gateway.
>
> That's weird.
> It may be related to another patch, like the grsecurity. Can you try
> building a server version and see if it behaves better?
>
> It is really hard to track these issues down.

I'm happy to inform you that a BIOS update for the P III machine
solved the problem.

Didi